A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Abundance

Economics
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A condition in which resources or goods are plentiful. In poetry, it can suggest overflowing feeling, fertility, or excess.

Detailed Definition
Abundance names an economy of plenty, where need seems briefly suspended by ample grain, water, money, or time. A poet may set abundance against private hunger, making a full orchard or crowded market expose an unequal world. The term can also describe verbal richness: a surplus of images, sounds, and gifts that creates delight while raising questions about waste, entitlement, and who is allowed to partake.
Example
Example in poetry:
In a harvest poem, abundance appears in the overflowing imagery of orchards, granaries, and baskets of fruit; Walt Whitman often uses abundant catalogues of people, landscapes, and occupations to create a sense of national plenty; A speaker may contrast the abundance of spring flowers with a household that lacks money; “The river gave us abundance, silver fish flashing in every net” uses economic plenty as poetic image
Additional Notes
Contrast abundance with scarcity; imagery of overflowing harvests, rooms, or voices can imply both blessing and excess.
Other Meanings of “Abundance”
Also Known As
Plenty Affluence
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